Kirk they made thousands of HQ Monaros, which are the same body apart from minor difference to the HJ Monaros and HX LE. What is different about the body on a phase 3 to a standard falcon besides a radiator support and a few tiny things they look exactly the same that's why you can build a replica with any XY. What do you mean a A9X dose not have the same body as a SS I guess you mean the rear floor pan? It is the same body with a few different bolt ons. Sorry Kirk I just don't want blokes walking around saying the wrong thing because people read it and take it as gospel.
Have you ever tryed to find a SS that has no flairs, no sunroof, original engine that has not been restores or pulled apart, where every thing is right? I have seen a few not for sale but they will not sell and I offered good money, to those owners money is obviously not everything. Cheers Aaron.
2/1976 torana LX SS 3.3litre hatchback - production numbers ? Anyone know ?
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Posted 09 October 2013 - 11:38 AM
I got an original SS with the original engine but i pulled it apart and built it the way i wanted to.To me a torana without flares is like a flat chested Salma Hayek.As for the bodies you seem to know what you're talking about i'll leave it there
cheers Kirk.
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Posted 09 October 2013 - 12:00 PM
8000 is a BIG number. I haven't got the numbers in front of me but there'd be lucky to be 8000 W size coupes made (HQ-HX).
Big call to call an A9X hatch the most desirable GMH product. I'd have one but there are a few i'd have first like a HK GTS327, a proper Aussie muscle car if there ever was one!
To be honest, if we are talking a modified car i'd rather a V8 SL hatch than a 6cyl SS. If we are talking authentic resto i'd have the 6cyl SS but put a 308 in it. Only a personal preference though.
Big call to call an A9X hatch the most desirable GMH product. I'd have one but there are a few i'd have first like a HK GTS327, a proper Aussie muscle car if there ever was one!
To be honest, if we are talking a modified car i'd rather a V8 SL hatch than a 6cyl SS. If we are talking authentic resto i'd have the 6cyl SS but put a 308 in it. Only a personal preference though.
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I also had Warwick Yellow HK GTS 327 as no 1 a few years back but now my no 1 pref would be a A9X Hatch Ex race car then a road going A9X hatch.
Here are some Hatchback and Monaro production no's i found on the net. I'm not sure how accurate.
Hatchbacks 8576
Norm Darwin...GMH historian reckons..
all models...from plain to GTS
HK 15637
HT 14437
HG 6147
HQ 13872
HJ 5517
HX 2079
HX LE 580 (606 built but the rest lost in a fire)
HZ.... 1438
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Posted 09 October 2013 - 03:22 PM
You are right, I just grabbed my total figures and HQ coupes are 13872.
HJ coupes are 943.
HX coupes 580. I'll check with Norm, im not certain that those lost in the fire in WA aren't in the 580 though.
HJ and HX are the same body.
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Posted 09 October 2013 - 09:18 PM
Hey Yel327 I knew you would say that about a HK 327 you love your Monaros but I am a Torana nut. I would say that a A9X is the most desirable as they are 9 years newer then a HK yet are more valuable. The HK is one of the greatest Aussie muscle cars made but most people rate the A9X as the greatest, unless you love Ford's, Cheers Aaron.
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Posted 09 October 2013 - 09:43 PM
An A9X hatch is certainly worth having, but I reckon they are only more valuable as there were less made. If only 100 or so GTS327's were made they'd be pulling the same, but there were 10 x that many (1192). Plus they are a proper factory build race car, designed to race as built (as are HT GTS350M and earlier XU1). I'd always put them in 2 x different catagories anyway, as the later stuff were not proper road going race cars but homologation specials. Same but different, but both still high on anyone's wish list!
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Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:33 AM
I gotta get out more.....had to copy and paste Salma Hayek
into Google to understand that earlier post....but now I GET IT
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Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:36 AM
Col you dont know who Salma Hayek is? shame on you
here do yourself a favour
https://www.youtube....h?v=UYxxgvA8rlM
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Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:43 AM
yep ...its official......on my bucket list is now - "become a big snake,and feature in a YouTube clip"........
thanks for the edu-ma-cation
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Posted 10 October 2013 - 05:52 AM
Have a look at "From Dusk 'til Dawn". She features well in that movie.
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Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:50 PM
yel327 the clip i posted is from that movie
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Posted 10 October 2013 - 01:19 PM
We think alike!
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Posted 02 March 2014 - 09:28 PM
Lol in ten years you haven't found one for sale, good ones are never advertised,
In my month of looking I have had 5 contenders none of which are on the open market , advertise a wanted advert have a wod of cash ready and look under every rock
We have found our dream and perfect one, details to be shared once in my driveway.
Maybe you haven't had enough cash or are not the buyer sellers are looking for
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